揭露狂热和罪恶
怀爱伦声明
(1885年8月7日写于马萨诸塞州南兰开斯特)
我只好说，我完全不相信加迈尔和他的工作。去年在杰克逊帐篷大会上所散发的传单，根本没有得到教会的认可。其发行靠的是所窃取的《评论与通讯》读者名单。{PH030 9.1}
加迈尔的女儿自称，或者是他替她宣称，说是看到了异象。但这些异象没有上帝的印记，与我们过去所遇见的许多此类事情一样，是撒但的骗局。{PH030 9.2}
我在杰克逊帐篷大会上明明白白地对这些狂热的人说，他们是在替人类的仇敌效劳，处于黑暗之中。他们宣称自己拥有大光，就是宽容时期将于1884年10月结束。{PH030 9.3}
当时我公开说，主曾乐意指示我，自1844年以来，上帝所赐的信息再也没有明确的时间了。我知道这四五个人所热心鼓吹的信息乃是异端。这个可怜的孩子所见的异象，不是上帝所赐的。这个亮光不是来自天上。时候不多了。但末日尚未来到。还有伟大的工作要完成，就是预备一班人接受永生上帝的印记。{PH030 9.4}
加迈尔先生、弗兰克·艾伦和弗兰克·琼斯是这种异端邪说的主要倡导者。上帝不会通过不洁的渠道传送祂的光和真理。这些人的记录是不清白的。他们在宗教生活中所走的道路使我们不相信他们是基督徒。{PH030 10.1}
我们以为他们所定的时间过去之后，他们会谦卑下来，承认自己受了迷惑，主就会饶恕他们架设虚假灯光的重罪。但是不然，他们在迷惑里越陷越深了。我想警告所有在巴特尔克里克的人，以及那些有可能被这些人欺骗的人，他们受了迷惑。{PH030 10.2}
弗兰克·琼斯是撒但的特务。他有影响力欺骗一些灵魂。既然他的教义如此明显地起源于一个不纯洁和腐败的头脑时，我们就会认为，任何受上帝之灵影响、对圣经有一定程度了解的人都会转身离开他那污染人的异端邪说，以厌恶来谴责他的变化无常。但在人的心里，有一种东西倾向于接受任何新奇的、古怪的、甚至是最自相矛盾的、最令人厌恶的东西。{PH030 10.3}
这个可怜的盲人属灵上的盲目比他肉眼的盲目还要大。撒但编造了最讨厌的变幻莫测的东西来呈现为真理。如果圣经提出任何这样的想法，异教徒的不信就很可以被证明是正当的了。我们警告所有可能受这几个被欺骗的人影响的人，不要接他们到家里，也不要问他们的安;因为他们正在做撒但的工作，就像那大骗子自己一样。{PH030 10.4}
上帝的标准是祂圣洁完全的律法;要高举这个。不要让任何事使你的脚离开那稳固的磐石。真理永远是纯洁、引人向上、使人高贵的。真理不会导致不贞洁，也不会导致道德污染。真理永远不会贬低听者，也不会导致任何不正当的行为。但那些走了这些人的道路的人，将在狂热的谬论和疯狂的、不可理喻的反复无常中走到很大的极端。他们开始挑剔教会;说教会背道了，领袖们背道了。他们有一道奇妙的信息。上帝已经将教会和领袖们撇在一边，这些人才是上帝的信使，发出最后的怜悯信息，宣扬加迈尔先生的女儿自称在异象中见到的时间的终结。{PH030 10.5}
这些人藐视一切的忠告、一切的建议，坚持说自己有真理。他们公开抨击教会是被弃绝的、堕落的。我和弗兰克·艾伦交谈，将他的错误告诉了他。我提出了他前后矛盾的生活，他邪恶、不道德的做法，违背了上帝的诫命，并向他说明了加迈尔先生有问题的基督徒品格。{PH030 11.1}
弗兰克·琼斯在天上案卷中过去的记录对他作了不利的见证;因为他留下了有污点的记录。我警告他要改变他的路线，但他不听。他藐视所有的忠告。我们原以为他们所设定的时间过去之后，我们就能对这些受了欺骗被迷惑的人做些什么。但他们和以往一样坚定坚决。他们顽梗地坚持偏行己路。{PH030 11.2}
我很遗憾施罗克弟兄被拉进了这种欺骗中;因为我相信他是他们中间惟一诚实的人。他卖掉了自己的房子，这些受骗的人就利用他的钱养活自己和家人，直到这位兄弟被日益增加的需求吓倒了，并在很大程度上收回了他的资助。我希望这弟兄能从撒但的网罗中挣脱出来，彻底忏悔他的错误，然后谦卑痛悔地重新在耶稣的脚前就位。{PH030 11.3}
我警告我的弟兄姐妹们，不要对这些人说一句表示同情或支持的话，因为他们在面对相反的证据和亮光时，一直在坚持自己令人厌恶的谬论。我们会认为这样的警告是完全没有必要的;然而当有男男女女倾向于谴责教会和上帝用来向世界传达祂信息的人时，他们就有危险听从一个陌生的声音，而不是听从真牧人的声音。{PH030 12.1}
基督说，我的羊听我的声音，他们不会听从陌生人的声音。加迈尔先生正设法让人听到他的声音;但他们不听。上帝并不拣选那些无论住在哪里其生活和基督徒品格都有问题的人，赐给他们特别的亮光，却忽视祂真实、献身、自我牺牲的仆人。这不是上帝的计划，反而看起来正像众生大仇敌的作为。{PH030 12.2}
弗兰克·琼斯和弗兰克·艾伦是你们有充分理由要小心提防的人。上帝不与他们同在。他们是被另一个灵引导的。他们的教义是撒但的教义。要防备这些人，他们埋伏着要欺骗不小心的人。但是，一个人怎么会被他们欺骗，乃是一个谜。{PH030 12.3}
愿主赐给祂的百姓智慧，使他们不至于和真牧人相隔那么远，以致能听到陌生人的声音，去跟从生人而不跟从真牧人。我若留意所听见的和所相信的，就好了，免得我们被发现在撒但的阵地上，全然受迷惑。
怀爱伦{PH030 12.4}
PH030 - An Exposure of Fanaticism and Wickedness
【Written Statement from Sister White】
(South Lancaster, Mass.,August 7, 1885.)
I am compelled to state that I have not had the least faith in Mr. Garmire or his work. The pamphlet that was issued last fall at the time of our Jackson camp-meeting had not the least sanction of our people. They were sent broadcast by stealing the?Review and Herald?list.?{PH030 9.1}[1]
The daughter of Mr. Garmire claims, or he claims for her, to have visions; but they bear not the stamp of God. They are of the same character as many such things we have met in our experience,—a delusion of Satan.?{PH030 9.2}[2] I plainly stated at the Jackson camp meeting to these fanatical parties that they were doing the work of the adversary of souls; they were in darkness. They claimed to have great light that probation would close in October, 1884.?{PH030 9.3}[3]
I there stated in public that the Lord had been pleased to show me that there would be no definite time in the message given of God since 1844; and that I knew that?this message which four or five were engaged in advocating with great zeal, was heresy. The visions of this poor child were not of God. This light came not from heaven. Time was short; but the end was not yet. A great work was to be accomplished to prepare a people to be sealed with the seal of the living God.?{PH030 9.4}[4]
Mr. Garmire, Frank Allen, and Frank Jones were the principal advocates of this heresy. God does not send his light and his truth through impure channels. The record of these men is not clear. They have pursued such a course in their religious life that we have no confidence in them as Christians.?{PH030 10.1}[5]
We thought that after the time passed they might humble themselves, confess their delusion, and the Lord would pardon the grievous sin of erecting a false light. But no; they went farther and farther into delusion. I wish to warn all in Battle Creek, and all who are liable to be in any way deceived by these men, that they are in a delusion.?{PH030 10.2}[6]
Frank Jones is a special agent of Satan. He has had influence to deceive some souls. When his doctrines are so manifestly originated by a mind impure and corrupt, we would think any mind that had been under the influence of the Spirit of God, and that was conversant with the Scriptures in any degree, would turn from his polluting heresy, and denounce his vagaries with loathing. But there is that in the human heart which inclines to accept anything new and odd and strange, even of the most inconsistent and revolting character.?{PH030 10.3}[7]
This poor blind man has greater spiritual blindness than that which marks his temporal vision. Satan has manufactured most loathsome vagaries to present as truth. Should the Bible present any such ideas, well might infidels be justified in their unbelief. We warn all who may be brought under the influence of these few deluded ones, to not receive them into their houses, or to bid them Godspeed; for they are doing the work of Satan as verily as the arch deceiver himself.?{PH030 10.4}[8]
God’s standard is his holy, perfect law; elevate that.?Let nothing move your feet from the solid Rock. Truth is ever pure, elevating, and ennobling. Truth never leads to unchastity, nor to moral pollution. Truth never degrades the receiver, never leads to any impropriety of conduct. But those who have taken the course these men have, will go to great extremes in fanatical errors and wild, unreasonable vagaries. They began to find fault with the church; the church was backslidden, the leaders were backslidden. They had a wonderful message. God had left the church and the leading men one side, and these men were God’s messengers, to give the last message of mercy, and proclaim the end of time which Mr. Garmire’s daughter had professed to see in vision.?{PH030 10.5}[9]
These men despised all counsel, all advice, and maintained that they had the truth. They denounced the church as forsaken, fallen. I conversed with Frank Allen, and told him of his errors. I presented his inconsistent life, his wicked, immoral course of action, breaking the commandments of God, and showed him the questionable Christian character of Mr. Garmire.?{PH030 11.1}[10]
The past record of Frank Jones in the books of heaven testified against him; for he left a spotted record. I warned him to change his course, but he paid no heed. He despised all counsel. We thought after the time they had set, passed, then we might be able to do something with these deceived, deluded souls. But they were just as firm and determined as ever. They manifested a stubborn persistence in having their own way.?{PH030 11.2}[11]
I regretted that Bro. Shrock should be drawn into this delusion; for I believed him to be the only honest one among them. He sold his home, and these deluded men drew upon his funds to support themselves and their families, until this brother was alarmed at the increasing demands, and withdrew, in a great measure, his support. I hope this brother will wrench himself free from Satan’s snares, and make thorough work to?confess his errors, and then take his place again, humble and penitent, at the feet of Jesus.?{PH030 11.3}[12]
I warn my brethren and sisters to give not one word of sympathy or support to these men who have been holding fast their loathsome errors in the face of evidence and light to the contrary. We would suppose that such a warning was wholly unnecessary; but when there are men and women who are inclined to condemn the church, and those whom God has used to bear his message to the world, they are in danger of following a strange voice, rather than that of the true Shepherd.?{PH030 12.1}[13]
Christ says, My sheep hear my voice, and the voice of a stranger will they not follow. Mr. Garmire is trying to make his voice heard; but listen not. God does not select men whose lives and Christian character are questionable wherever they have lived, and give them special light, and pass his true, devoted, self-sacrificing servants by. This is not God’s plan. It looks, just as it is, like the work of the great adversary of souls.?{PH030 12.2}[14]
Frank Jones and Frank Allen are men of whom you may well beware. God is not with them. They are led by another spirit. Their doctrines are the doctrines of Satan. Beware of these men who lie in wait to deceive unwary souls. But how any one can be deceived by them is a mystery.?{PH030 12.3}[15]
May the Lord give wisdom to his people that they will not so far separate themselves from the true Shepherd that they can hear the voice of a stranger, and follow him rather than the true Shepherd. We do well that we take heed what we hear and what we believe, lest we be found wholly deceived, on Satan’s ground.?---Ellen G. White{PH030 12.4}[16]
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